The Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was not that good in with Germany. The nation had been blamed for the first world war and had been forced to pay compensation to the allies under the war guilt clause of the treaty. The war guilt clause not only made the Germans accept responsibility for the war but also cost them dearly. 10% of German lands were lost as a result, all of Germany's overseas colonies were taken away and shared between the allies and a massive 12.5% of the German population found itself living outside of the new German borders. These terms had several very dramatic consequences on Germany.

• Initially they refused to sign the treaty and opted to scuttle the fleet in protest.

• The economy was ruined as much of the produce and profit had to be sent to the allies as reparations payments. This meant that the German economy was unable to recover itself.

• The disarmament of the armed forces was viewed as an embarrassment and the Germans felt very insecure about their inability to defend themselves: it also meant a loss of status as military power means that a nation has political clout.

• The German people felt bitter that they were excluded from the league of nations and enforced to live by other peoples rules.

Mustafa Kemal(aka: Ataturk) and the modernization of turkey

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk-
He put an end to the antiquated Ottoman dynasty whose tale had lastedmore than six centuries - and created the Republic of Turkey in 1923, establishing a newgovernment truly representative of the nation's will.President for 15 years, until his death in 1938, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk introduced abroad range of swift and sweeping reforms - in the political, social, legal, economic, andcultural spheres - virtually unparalleled in any other country.
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Film Lesson-Gandhi

Gandhi helped his nation of India gain Independence from Great Britain. The way that he that he did this was by forming a group if people and then having them march an do protest against the british. But the in the beginning the british used to beat them very bad with sticks and other weapons to get them to stop. Gandhi did not like violence, so instead of fighting back when the british attacked them, Gandhi and his people took it like men even though that was the most stupid thing that they could have done, because they could have died. And i do think that Gandhi had a huge part with india getting its independence but if he had never helped, it probably would have happened anyway.